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the “screw-up effect.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
observers were consequently stunned when, beginning in early 2004, the State Security Ministry released a series of statistics indicating that Hurst's estimate…
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
sedition.
John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
Since the Protestant Reformation these systems of pre-publication inspection of copy (more theoretical than practical) had been reinforced by brutal penalties for any who challenged the local orthodoxy. Printers knew they had to tread carefully. But it would be wrong to ascribe the overwhelmingly loyalist tone of the news pamphlets primarily to cen
... See moreAndrew Pettegree • The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
In fact, Wilson tried to strengthen the Espionage Act with a provision giving broad censorship powers directly to the president.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Ideas of blackness and criminality were becoming inherently interlinked.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Documentary interchangeability, which reinforced human interchangeability, was fostered by the development of a standardized language-of-state.
Benedict Anderson • Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Illegibility was a political act.